Strange, weird or odd or whatever beach finds thread….

No photos, but the apple hatch was epic today. I must have had at least 25 slowly float by. I have a feeling someone living on a beach nearly was using the sound as their yard recycle bin for the apples that dropped. I know they are biodegradable, but I still prefer not to see them disposed of that way.
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Stonedfish said:
No photos, but the apple hatch was epic today. I must have had at least 25 slowly float by. I have a feeling someone living on a beach nearly was using the sound as their yard recycle bin for the apples that dropped. I know they are biodegradable, but I still prefer not to see them disposed of that way.
SF
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I was once on a river in the fall, and saw several apples floating by. Like you, I wondered how they got there. As I made my way upstream, I noticed an apple tree high up on the far bank, a steep bank. It was loaded with fruit. Just then, Splash! An apple fell. Hmm, okay, sez I to myself.
 
Matt B said:
I was once on a river in the fall, and saw several apples floating by. Like you, I wondered how they got there. As I made my way upstream, I noticed an apple tree high up on the far bank, a steep bank. It was loaded with fruit. Just then, Splash! An apple fell. Hmm, okay, sez I to myself.
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That is a distinct possibility as to how the apples got there.
I once saw someone dump a cardboard box full of apples into the sound at a public access, so that was my thoughts of how they got there. Curbside yard waste recycling pickup also isn’t available in the area I was fishing yesterday.
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Stonedfish said:
No photos, but the apple hatch was epic today. I must have had at least 25 slowly float by. I have a feeling someone living on a beach nearly was using the sound as their yard recycle bin for the apples that dropped. I know they are biodegradable, but I still prefer not to see them disposed of that way.
SF
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Big time apple hatch over this way. They were everywhere.
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Maybe the deer were bobbing for apples on Halloween?
 
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boogShoog said:
Found this bone on a MA-10 beach. Can anyone help identify?
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Hard to tell from the pictures alone if it's an actual bone or actually a sedimentary concretion/nodular rock, hard to see any simmetry or porosity that you usually see on bones/animal fossils, so from pictures alone I would lean towards rock. Cool find!
 
VMP said:
Hard to tell from the pictures alone if it's an actual bone or actually a sedimentary concretion/nodular rock, hard to see any simmetry or porosity that you usually see on bones/animal fossils, so from pictures alone I would lean towards rock. Cool find!
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The grooves in photo 3 are the main thing tripping me out.

It’s also very soft to the touch a chunk broke off while I was washing it today.
 
boogShoog said:
The grooves in photo 3 are the main thing tripping me out.

It’s also very soft to the touch a chunk broke off while I was washing it today.
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Don't know for sure but.....

If a chunk broke off more likely a mud or sandstone concretion, a fossilized bone piece should be extremely hard and resilient.

When you washed it, if you could rub the rock and it sort of turned to really fine sediment, that would also suggest similar

If you were near a bluff by Puget sound the concretions are pretty common and if you found one there should be more nearby. They may not last that long given how soft they are.

If you find a whole lot nearby that have a similar spinal cord to rib vibe AND there's a bunch of sorta squishy, mucous-covered, barrel shaped things, with segmented top flaps that start opening up....you may want to watch out....
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Collected a bunch of similar P-sound concretions and clay babies and ended up building my own "fossils" (from a PNWFF sculpture thread).
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doing some slow work on a similar project (anatomic primitive stuff) with a mix of concretions and what David James Duncan calls river teeth (essentially the resin filled branch structure) that would, if you cut it crosswise, make for a knot in your plank - examples below. For whatever reason (?surf tumbling) some of the River Teeth from out on the OP beaches are super dense/heavy and at first glance almost like fossil shark teeth in shape compared with the teeth you get on PS beaches which are more like the guys below...(wood is so much kinder to work with than stone)

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